RockoA lot of people have tried to spark up discord servers for pugging HL and 6s but most of the time the mods burn out from people messing around and they end up dominated by just advanced+ players who play more than anybody else is even able to.
I think it's because Discord is not the best format to use if you want to run pugs. The best thing they have going for them is that anyone can start it: It's an easy program to learn how to use, you don't need to pay for a server, sharing information is as easy as generating a link, and you don't need any plugins/mods/bots/etc if you just want to run a small pug group with in-house friends.
The downside is that mods are doing more than just running pugs, compared to a Mumble-based pug. They have to care when someone spams general or when players are in some e-argument. They have to individually vet and approve people, compared to a website-based pug that lets you connect to your Steam. Then you have pug running which can be incredibly tedious to do (Locking the channel, remembering who played med, rolling the dice and counting whose been picked, dealing with other runners tripping you up like dragging in that one guy in general spamming "LET ME IN" mid-picks). The PugBot made it as easy as a 20-second task, but nobody wants to learn how to use it.
It sometimes feels like people are trying to make pugs work in spite of Discord's format as a band-aid solution while people pass around the keys being in charge until they wait for that one big platform to take it from them and generate whatever new website-based pug group everyone is waiting for, whether it's gonna be RGL or FACEIT.